Copy To ClipBoard

Copies members that you can paste to other locations within your 3D model or to 3D models in other SDS2 Jobs.
  • Step-By-Step
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1 . Preselect one or more Members to enable the Members contextual page and click the Copy To ClipBoard icon found in the Modify section.

Alternative: Invoke Copy To ClipBoard using the Find Tool by searching the command name and clicking the icon, which is pictured above.

2 . The status line prompts, "Locate a reference point". Locate - Pan - Return mouse bindings become active along with various Locate options. Select a Locate icon and left-click (Locate) a reference point. The member(s) are copied and can now be pasted in your current job's model or in a different job's model using Paste From ClipBoard.

Alternative 1: If you did not preselect a member, the status line prompts, "Select member(s) to copy". Left-click (Select) one or more members and follow step 2 above.

Alternative 2: Press Esc or right-click (Return) to end the command.

  • Copy To ClipBoard lets you copy members from your current Job so that you can later paste them into a different Job using Paste From ClipBoard.
  • Paste From ClipBoard may be done in Jobs that share the same data directory.
  • The clipboard that is copied to is, in fact, a temporary Job that is stored in the data directory and is associated with the login name of the user who did the Copy To ClipBoard operation.
  • A clipboard is overwritten each time a user does a Copy To ClipBoard.
  • Multiple clipboards, each associated with a different user, may be saved to the data directory.
  • The clipboard is saved across multiple SDS2 sessions so long as the user does not overwrite it by doing another Copy To ClipBoard.
  • Since a clipboard is tied to a person's login name, the same person needs to perform both the Copy To ClipBoard and Paste From ClipBoard operation.
  • When copying members to the clipboard, the original Job's shape file is used. If needed, materials will be copied to the local shape file of the Job that is pasted to.
  • The reference point that you locate when you Copy To ClipBoard should be placed at a location that will permit you to easily rotate the members into place when you later Paste From ClipBoard in a different Job.
  • If your organization is working on two different Jobs that model the same construction project with members oriented exactly the same with respect to the 0, 0, 0 global coordinate , it might be a good idea to use the global 0, 0, 0 point as your reference point. However, this is a very special situation that would only work on Jobs that are near duplicates of one another.